With a deeply personal touch, Emmy Award-winning director Maryam Ebrahimi captures the hopes and dreams of a group of Kurdish guerrillas. Once celebrated as global heroes in the war against ISIS, they are now abandoned by their allies. Ebrahimi has gained unique access to follow four friends in a house for wounded soldiers over the course of five years.
The Phantom Pain of Rojava is a post-war story set in Rojava, an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Syria. The film is produced by Stina Gardell at Mantaray Film, known for internationally acclaimed documentaries such as The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (Sundance 2021) and Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words (Cannes 2015).

Production
Director: Maryam Ebrahimi

Producer: Stina Gardell

Assistant Producer: Mirjam Gellhorn

Cinematographer: Guillaume Briquet

Additional cinematography: Maryam Ebrahimi

Editor: Amalie Tjellesen Westerlin

Composer: Katharina Nuttall

Audio Design: Håkon Lammetun

Grade: Fredrik Harreschau

Co-Producer: Stine Ann Skaret / Stray Dogs (NO)

Status: Developement

With the support from: The Swedish film institute, The Norwegian film institute, IDF Enterprise Documentary Fund, Inmaat Foundation, The Fritt Ord Foundation, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Women Make Movies

Developed with the support from: The Creative Europe Programme – Media of the European Union
 
In co-production with Stray Dogs Norway, Film Stockholm
 
In association with SVT, TVO Media Education Group, Chicken & Egg Films

Information
Pitched at Nordisk Forum 2021, Hot Docs Deal Maker 2022, IDFA Forum Central Pitch 2022

Director Maryam Ebrahimi is the 2021 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient